What are embassies and what are their purpose?
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Think about your neighborhood. You have neighbors living around you, and you probably occasionally need to settle things with your neighbors. Your kids visit their kids, for example, and they want to sleep over. Or their kids break a toy over at your place. Or someone’s yard is full of annoying barking dogs and dog shit and trash. So you phone them, or you visit their place, or they visit your place, and you talk things out, maybe settle on some ground rules about how things should be.
On a normal family scale, that’s doable. But what if your family had millions of people in a gigantic home with millions of rooms, and the neighbors also had millions of people in a gigantic home with millions of rooms, and so did the neighbors on the other side, and so on. Inter-neighbor relations wouldn’t be manageable with a phone call or a visit. There would be thousands of interactions to handle between each pair of homes. You have millions of kids, for example, and a million of them want to sleep over at the neighbor’s house.
To solve this, you set aside a room in your home that is reserved for a representative member of your neighbor’s family, and they set aside such a room in their home for a representative member of your family. When you need to settle something with your neighbors, you go down the hall to the room you reserved for them in your massive home (their embassy in your home) and you work it out with their representative (ambassador and staff). If your kids need something while they’re at the neighbor’s house, they know they can go to the room reserved for your family representative (ambassador and staff) at the neighbor’s house and get help.
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